same with star trek and star wars. basically the jocks have taken over nerd culture. not to join us but to destroy what we love because they're BULLIES
@TheBayzent I realized also that overall mechanics of games haven't changed. They just upped the graphics in small ways towards realism. But fundamentally the original doom is not that different from call of duty. You have a 300 gb download for a rehash it's jot worth it. Especially 60 or 70 bucks for a game that you could play for a fraction of the cost in an older version
Toys R' Us: Dead Saturday Morning Cartoons: Dead Toys in Cereal Boxes: Dead Arcades: Dead Comics: Dead Beloved Movie Franchises: Dead The world is dying. Everything good has been destroyed. Those lucky enough to have been kids in the 80's and 90's were living at the height of awesome. Early 00's was the twilight. It's over folks.
it's not that we want games to end, it's that we want the preditory practices or subversion of the gaming industry to take place, we still want to play games, but we have seen who these companies pander to, and we have seen them rip us off all the time, it just took us a while to figure it all out. we still want to game, we just don't like all the power these gaming companies have to destroy the industry, they drew first blood with the gamers, and we are finishing it off to start a new, just hopefully what we start over with is better and isn't such a scam and isn't filled with panderverse BS. we just want video games to be great again, and they can't seem to make that possible anymore..
Vaguely related, and idk if anything Nintendo is considered triple A, but I'm hoping they capitalize on everything else's failure and give us something that isn't just a slightly upgraded Switch. I'd be cashing in on nostalgia and bring back Wii interface/functions and a bunch of the old Mii titles for replay, plus something like an in-universe sequel to SM64. Is it fresh and original, no, but if you can't do that a faithful homage to nostalgic classics will still be easy cash.
@@turntoyouIf anything. Nintendo is one to root for these days. Their recent releases do point to a brighter future come next gen and will likely capitalize on everyone’s failures.
@mirceazaharia2094 I mean, you are able to purchase and own the mcu movies on Blu-ray and be able to watch it as many times as you want. So pirating would be theft if you agree with the logic of "if purchasing isn't owning, pirating isn't theft"
@@7stringguitarplayer the problem is a lot of things are streaming or online only now a days as they kill off physical media. So buying physical media (AKA DVD, Blu-ray, GDROM, ect.) means you own it, its is you're for all time unless you lose it or some one physically steals it. But now if you BUY a video game off a online place and in the future they drop it, you better not delete it off your old PC or you'll never have it again. If your movie streaming service drops old content, you can't watch it ever again. Sort of like when you've put years and thousands of dollars into a MMO and the company shuts the servers off and you can't play it online. Also, if you say naughty things online or during game play, you might violate a TOS and have the game you paid for taken away from you.
20 year old games. Maybe even 30 if I dig up that list of games. Really. I have a long backlog of gaves that are years to decades old, lol....I shouldn't laugh. It is quite sad...still, I need to get around to playing them >.>
Exactly. They keep crapping on franchises people love in order to push their woche agenda, and people are saying no thanks and walking away. They deserve to close down. The AAA industry needs to check out until they take the hint and give people products they want.
Ah "consumer taste change"! It is like a steak house started to serve vegan eggplants as ribeye. Then calls customers who refusing it names. Then act confused why people dont come back
Made the mistake of buying a ps4 to play a few games and now I own that whole library on steam releases, not wasting the money on a console again, no game has come out to still make it feel worth it.
'member when you bought a game and it was complete...no wait for à couple of month for the rest of the story or.buy this better weapon, because the best weapon were part of sidequest/secrets. Miss those time. For me snes will be the best console
Me too. I have just been playing Switch and my Odin 2. Modern games have no fun value right now. They are all made the same and expensive. I vowed that I am not getting another PlayStation console. The Switch 2 is my last console that I will ever get. Triple A games are just not my thing anymore.
Got my PS5 in 2021. Haven’t really done anything with it. I got it anticipating the release of two exclusives in particular, one of which has since been cancelled and the other is still unreleased but leaks of story and gameplay have left me disinterested
remember when steve jobs said, "we need to know what the customer wants before they do." yeah these execs arent steve jobs. I don't think they could predict what their wives want out of a happy marriage let alone something as abstract as "fun."
As with other parts of American entertainment, folks are rediscovering older media- thanks to these entertainment firms being more forcus on pushing agenda- rather than pushing great product.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 If you can manage to go and find the original releases and emulate them, those ones are usually clear of the BS. Just means you might have to sail the Seven Seas for some of those original versions of games being remade by the D.I.E. nowadays. Technically speaking, I can't tell you where to find said old video game ROMs and whatnot to go back to retro games via emulations and I technically can't condone it because it's technically illegal. What I will say is I completely understand why people go and do that stuff, especially nowadays when most AAA games (and even a lot of AA games like Helldivers 2) are getting filled with people who don't care about the games, don't care about the hobby, and they actively berate you for being involved in the hobby (i.e. if you wanna know why I said Helldivers 2 is getting infected by this stuff, the devs may not be crazy but their community managers used to spout D.I.E. talking points. I take that as a sign of if they still work there, the devs are effectively co-signing it). Last time I bought anything AAA was D2's Final Shape and that was because I got suckered into it after seeing that the raid and everything looked good on week 1. After week 1 though, I ditched it because new-Bungie's typical BS started seeping in (terrible grind, loot being good but the sources for it all suck to do, etc.) and I regretted buying Final Shape. I should've known better but I was a moron and thought "Bungie surely isn't that stupid as to kneecap their own 'final shot' at not collapsing, right?" I clearly underestimated how deep the combination of rot and brainrot (yes, there is a distinction in this case) had set in.
I don't think it's just agenda. The respective industries have backed themselves into a corner through risk aversion. Gambling risks the bottom line but creativity is a risky endeavour. Maybe the creative industries are finally realising you can't eternally run a creative business by sticking to tried and tested, formulaic methods.
These have been covered ad nauseum, but 1. Games aren't designed to be fun any more, they are designed to maximize micro-transactions 2. Games released are unfinished, buggy, and many times barely playable 3. There is no depth any more, stories and characters are very shallow, level design is lazy, mechanics are overly simplistic, etc. 4. Too many repetitive, time wasting type quests are added to make it seem like there is a lot to do when there really isn't. 5. Open world designs have gotten worse over the years instead of better. Etc., etc.
Video games are always worth it. Some of you guys are just blinded by nostalgia, play the same type of games and dont diversify, or incapable of moving on. Gaming is getting better. In the past 4 years I have played some of the best games yet across all genres. Time to choose another hobby then if you are not content with gaming.
Shit, I pull out my old ps3 black ops game and play online still. It's only team deathmatch but atleast it's better than the shit they keep pumping out
The disgusting way the executive class has been acting at videogame companies has turned me away from buying new games. I'll play my existing games for the foreseeable future.
Games stopped being Fun because Corporations monetized the Gameplay or progression, industry got full of talentless people then came wokeness with over-politization to make things way worse. As things stand, games can only get worse. People realized far too late and their pushback has been too feeble.
disagree. while i do agree that some companies will continue to over monetized games. i think their is some good companies around that will put out good games. Baulders Gate 3 and Elden Ring are excellent examples of good products. Steam has also made space for indie companies. You might find some great stuff if you look there.
The gaming industry WAS ruined. DEI initiatives did little less than hasten setting up the noose. Microtransactions among other issues were always there to deter gamers for greed. Heck most of these industries have a whole slew of other issues besides DEI. Personally I think DEI is a symptom of the issues, not what caused the failure of these industries.
That article was complaining that 50 year old men were not happy with the new products. They forget that those middle aged men have been gamers since before it was cool to game, since the times when you would be physically beat and bullied for playing video games or reading comics. They kept the industry afloat. When these old guys are dissatisfied, they need to listen to them!
There's also the fact those 50 year old men also brought their enjoyment of video games to the their children or nephews and pointed out which ones were good and which to avoid except to see how bad they were. Mario 64 = good, Superman 64 = bad.
When you look at demographics, the generation X males have all the way along been the most prolific playerbase, even as they aged. Constantly listed in their stats for years on end.
@@DH-xw6jp - mileage varies on the whole getting beat up and bullied. Some of the old gamers were bullies themselves, hustling lunch money from younger kids for arcade money, or whatnot. By and large gamers became a community among neighborhood kids that stayed over and played games together on the weekends. Free food and free video games at friends houses were a big part of what built the gaming industry.
i'm no boomer gamer, but i do agree with this idea, but i have come to understand it would be better if they just made all games modifiable, because at that point, nobody is there to dictate what kinds of games you play because everything is up to your choice's in how you choose to play your game, no need for Sony to get their commifornia agenda to control what you play or see in your game, because it's not up to them, it's up to you in what you want in your game regardless their agenda to propagandize to you further. modding is the way to go, it's the only thing that makes these games free with all the freedom we want in them, without some butthurt company trying to control the content you play. this is another reason why i won't purchase some games anymore.
@@5226-p1e there might be boomer gamers, but they're in 70's and 80's. Gen-X were the first to really embrace gaming. Boomers either really liked them because they were trying to be the friend parents or cool aunt or uncle, or they thought they were a waste of time.
What worries me is its hitting the ones that actually can make good stuff as well. I feel this crash was intentionally done maliciously than natrually.
if they don't learn their lesson though, this could just be an excuse for the activists to push out more talent. "Oh the law's on our ass about discrimination and firing people. Well, we can just say the economy did it." It's a double edged sword and we'll have to see how each company handles it.
The saddest thing about the corpos not understanding gaming is that the business model is the same as movies. So you’d think companies like Disney would understand the movie business model.
well kind of, for example, i still play both skyrim and FO4, both these games were kinda woke, but they put in that nonsense long before people started noticing. my only reason to play these games is because of the unfretted access to the modding scene, because with mods your possibilities are near endless, so if someone makes a non woke mod for FO4 called " grounded commonwealth ", that takes out and changes all the woke trash in FO4 and makes the game more well, grounded in based reality, that can always be found online and played, now the Nexus website banned the mod and the creator of the mod, because it wasn't woke and that goes against their weak woke mind virus ideology, but you can find it on some other website, you just have to do a little searching for it. same goes with other mods not found on the nexus with the LL name, so again, they can always be found on some other website, this is what i meant by unfretted access to modding, so long as that still exists, we can always make our games the way we want to play them without some corporate asshat making the changes for us only to later censor the game, that won't happen with a game that is fully modifiable. so i will continue to play these old games for as long as i please, but i know these games origins are to push the message of wokeness, but that can always be corrected via the modding machine. so it's no wonder i still play these games and will forever choose these games over everything else that is released.
@@marhawkman303 it's a bit more complicated then just being graphic heavy focused, especially with them making female characters ugly on purpose but not male characters. It's way more than just graphics.
I'm absolutely shocked that a business that is based around fun, whimsy, and passion died when soulless corporations took over. I wonder why paint by number art isn't in museums.
Games feeling the same, costing $70-80+ dlc+ online membership+ lot boxs+ ads+ copy pasted stories. I wonder why people are not buying new video games. It couldn't be the hundreds of dollars per game. New consoles under performing to push photo realism. While only able to get 24-30 fps .
I've been jumping into them more and more these days. The only issue there is if you like physicals... you're either gonna have to deal with legal resellers or yard sales, and the latter is usually a stroke of luck to find CIB and clean while the former can be expensive as hell (ex. At a re:gen they had Wayne's World for $100+), so you're better off emulating from either a PC or a handheld unless you have the money to pay up.
Indie games just seem to have much better ideas these days. Recently played an indie game called Sanabi and felt that that's the type of story that should've come out of AAA titles with all that funding.
Consumers tastes haven’t changed, devs have been pushing things gamers don’t want and they are failing. A whole lot of tourists thought they could make money while pushing their ideology on gamers, same as journos, and they wonder why no one wants their crap
A game from 1993 that I got today was filled with manuals, tip book, a comic book, all in colour mind you, a behind-the scenes of the making of the game, and more. Even the box was huge and sturdy. Compare that to games today, you often get absolutely nothing inside besides a manual, it just feels like game studios don't give a damn about making the experience magical or exciting anymore
@@BasedWukongtrue. It's more accurate to say most of it isn't worth it, and the industry usually only pushes the bad stuff, despite making the odd bit of good stuff
you're not entirely wrong. I have a ps5 I was gifted and was absurdly excited. a few years later and the only game I play on it is *still* Elden Ring, which I started playing on the four anyway.
The old killer also remains, which is FOMO. If one game force you to play 2 hours a day to not miss out, then that is 2 hours taken from all other games. When a gamer is up to 4 of those FOMO games with dailies, it is 8 hours per day lost from playing other games, ensuring most other games will never get a chance to be played.
@@linusgustafsson2629Absolutely. Add to this the fact that the very survival of a AAA company - who are now stupidly trying to oush the envelope into AAAAAAAA domain - necessisates constant upping of the ante. Bigger games ensure you cant have an active playerbase in more than a couple games at once. Bigger budgets mean more money to recuperate and more loss when going on sales or gamepass. Its a self-digging hole the indistry has cornered itself into.
Without being too specific, this story hits home for me. I've been a gamer since I was 7 and my mom came home with a computer for the family. I'm 46 now so that's quite a long time. When my daughter was growing up, she gravitated towards it too and even decided to make it her career. She went to college for it. She got a job with a major company that everyone knows. I won't out them, but she got laid off from that company. She was unemployed and looking for work for a few months because so few companies were hiring in the industry. She did get a job again, but it was rough for a while. Honestly though, I don't blame video game companies for the layoffs. If they have too many people who are not actually coding or doing artwork, that's not helpful. I get that there are some jobs like manager and accounting, but you don't need THAT many of those jobs. A lot of these companies have like 50% useless jobs.
Growing up, I wanted to be a chef. Ended up going to culinary school, and after a few years, I discovered that I hated being a chef. Long hours, high stress, low pay, honestly it was complete bullshit.
I wanted to make a career change to be a chef about a decade ago. Instead of going to culinary school first, I worked in a restaurant for a year. I'm glad I did. I found out how low of pay it was. I went back to my office job with my tail between my legs.
@@nickohart3408 in life, you have to learn that certain stuff isn't for you. I remember taking truck driving lessons because I was unemployed and the unemployment center helped people learn a new career. I tried those classes for three weeks. I finally drove a truck and decided it wasn't for me. I would have ended up endangering someone on the road and I couldn't grasp the mechanics of the truck. I backed down. Sometimes, it's not quitting. It's about knowing it's not for you and move to something that is for you. Hope the comment wasn't too long
@@TheDumontShow i remember wanting to go the trucking route as well, and my motivation at the time was because of the potential money i could make and a disability i had that made it next to impossible to work in other jobs, but i found driving quite boring and i was also very concerned that i could endanger not only myself but others on the road, so i left that idea behind, it's sad because for me driving is easy peasy lemon squeezy, but if i fall asleep at the wheel, it could mean my end or someone else's. i have also heard about other drivers either falling asleep at the wheel or getting distracted and causing a massive accident that lead to lots of death and destruction and them being held accountable for it, either by being sent to jail for life or prison for life, and that's just to high a price, i mean if it's that bad, than i would rather that responsibility be for the driverless vehicles, because at that point it's all up to insurance without locking someone up. for years i have always thought that these types of vehicles should have their own damn freeway for this reason alone, and there was a time when the politicians debated that idea, but they decided not to go this route out of it was too expensive, so in the future i could see people demand for it or to make them all driverless automated vehicles.
@@5226-p1e first of all, than you for sharing your story with me. Second, I didn't account for me sleeping at the wheel. That is another factor of being a truck driver. In life, you can't take certain risk to make a dollar. Imagine if you did have that job and you slept behind the wheel. That's something that makes you step back and reevaluate what you really want to do. I get scared driving next to them on the highway too. I live in Jersey so there are a lot of truck roads in North Jersey, especially towards the city (New York City I speak of) Lastly, I hope you made a great lane for yourself at least. Like I always say, you have to get it where you fit in.
I think we're all sitting on enough of a games backlog that we're fine without buying anything new for a few years while the industry sorts itself out.
Not to mention all the shoved in monetization! Gotta nickel and dime you to make your experience more 'enjoyable' at the cost of doubling or more your initial purchase price!
Consumer taste never changed, the industry was invaded by activists who are more concerned about pushing an agenda, and the media behind it was also invaded by the same activists who write fluff pieces championing an audience that doesn't exist while actively pushing away the consumer base that supported it
The interesting thing few have done statistics on, is how activism and propaganda skyrocketed as women got hired. Of course I doubt all women are negative for a workplace, probably only those who have pronouns and flags on their social media.
@mal35m oh, for sure, there's issues across the board with the publishers and developers. The gaming industry has gotten too big for it's own good and has attracted every type of leach imaginable
People asking "why make video games anymore?" and not answering it with "because it's our passion" is a good sign. That means that everyone who's only in it for the money will be filtered out, and the passionate individuals will keep going. Exactly what's needed and what gamers want. Hopefully I have some quality games to look forward to soon.
@@rremnar Yea, if you own a few stocks. But the point is that large firms can take seats on the board. And those large firms are not in it to make games, they are in it to recognize a profit. So decisions are made that impact the bottom line rather than making decisions which will make the best game. How is this not clear to everybody? I am a staunch capitalist and even I can see that in the conflict of having a fiduciary obligation and a bonus system tied into the bottom line of the firm vs making decisions that impact the games they are working on has created an impossible situation for Developer CEO's and COO's.
Dude, this is just one of at least three industries that are in a bubble, You ever see that movie the big short? We're at the stage when the agencies and institutions are trying to hide what's going on and pretend nothing is happening just so they can inflate a bit further and save their own ass before they pop. BTW entertainment industry, game industry, real estate industry, and possibly the crash of the very dollar. And food will follow if food prices don't get their shit together. But that one can be blamed on uber. And dont even get me started on cab industry.
I was a gaming journalist from 99-2018. Dozens of different sites, magazines, etc. The problem was I happened to be one of the truth tellers who cared about the fans and the industry. During GamerGate, people like me were attacked, called problematic, and canceled. Those who remain do it for free or very little money. It was doomed for years. Actual gaming is doomed too, since too much DEI and wokism has sullied a hobby that was once just pure escapism.
@@COUNTVLAIDMIR I miss the magazines from the early 2000s or earlier, especially Y2K era stuff. The art styles just popped and everything had so much potential.
Its infected a large part of the AAA game companies, maybe some of the AAs, but the indie devs can't afford that or its a passion project so if it has it in there that actually the devs choice. At least Nintendo hasn't fallen for it and SquareEnix is pivoting away from that garbage (at least the Square section is since they followed it, Enix didn't seem to change).
A large issue the article ignored is how much social justice activism destroyed entertainment. A lot of those Diversity consultants and non-profits took hundreds of thousands of dollars from game studios, comic studios, and the like and their advice brought back no returns and these companies kept doubling down on stupid until the money ran out. Yes, corporate is to blame for accepting that poison in. But lets not also forget that those same social justice orgs made the claim that their "advice" would reach a larger and untapped gaming demographic which would grow profits. The people who actually bought and played games made their opinion known that they didn't like the stuff being pushed out and were called a small percentage of the market. So yeah, the same people now acting surprised why anyone would want to make games now probably have themselves to blame for the industry going to crap in the first place.
There's a few factors that have combined but this is a massive part of it. The bully consultants extorted millions through threats of cancellations - the activist developers drove away the customers - and the greedy corpos oversqueezed those that were left. Bed made. Lie in it.
Diversity is killing gaming. Specifically the LGBTQIA lets be real. The proof is in every game that has failed. Imagine if they put a black man who gets oppressed by the cops or someone of authority in every video game. That shit would get so annoying to the point that you quit playing every game that has it in it. Its the same shit
@Katastrofi_X28 Wtf, are you ranting about? Always some far right nutjob injecting thier own personal hate-based agenda into every topic they can that has nothing to do with politics, religion etc.. Oh, and I love how you had to use the example of a black guy and the police when your original statement was about LGBTQ. Go take that bs to the MAGA channel. We are just talking video games over.
@@TwanBankz Good point there are not good movies or tv shows made anymore, you have to go back quite a way like 15 to 20 years to find good tv and movies. There might be good stuff coming out of other countries tho, like India or China or japan or south korea.
@@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418 bro its sad theres some bangers here & there , but almost all movies nowadays(these past couple years) have been almost stale & dipped in the woke agenda crap
There are a ton of Indie games and a huge backlog of older games that still hold up very well today and are sold at cheap prices. This issue is mostly a recent AAA games issue methinks.
I rather get a copy of pokemon Colosseum and xd gale of darkness than to play any moderday pokemon heck even generation 5 pokemon is good compare to the newwr gen pokemon [my opinion at least]
I mean, there are still good games being made and there has always been shit, remember all the movie licensed and shovelware from the PS2-Wii era? Really just don't preorder and listen to fans and you can find the good stuff.
live through those years...knowing how good games were...how magical they were...only to see them turn into this; like watching some you love [delete] from cancer slowly and painfully. Welcome to my life.
This reminds me of what my high school economics teacher, who was a member of the John Birch Society, told all of us in the late 80s. If you want job security, learn how to start your own business and do sales.
Took game dev in college back in '17. Don't get in the industry without connections. It has terrible job security especially with indies. The ones you know about are the exceptions, not the rule.
It shouldn't be the exception honestly. It's why I don't buy the lowering entry bar for people works as much as they thought. Like seriously, it's why I don't buy into stuff like the AI stuff they're trying to make the norm now even for making content for games or whatever.
It's always who you know, not what you know... All those years being pushed towards tech only to get there when things are imploding... So much for that.
Job security is based how profitable your product is, so not a huge surprise. Its also not something people need to survive unlike food, water & shelter so its on the chopping block during hard economic times.
Companies: * Refuses to do anything smart due to "brand risk" * Also Companies: "Selling a product that hasn't been made to a market that doesn't exist, there is surely no way this can go wrong!"
Remember when we C&C generals? a strategy base builder games criticizing war, the military industry, and let you played as terrorist that felt like they got a point? (if you ignore their methods), 2 years AFTER 9/11, WHILE Afghanistan war was ongoing, 1 MONTH BEFORE Irak war? We can't get those kind of games now. Give me a game about the ongoing conflicts, show me the position of each sides... is that too much to ask?
It has nothing to do with taking risks, they just think gatekeeping good ideas out will somehow make their bad ideas work. They are totally fine with taking risks, it's just that their goal isn't cooperation, but subjugation. Which is insane, because you can't make somebody buy something. But, these aren't intelligent or sane people...
Not sure about "taking risks". New releases suck and they don't need to take risks to get good ideas into the release title, or fix bad ideas. Arrowhead Studios is taking a risk more with dumb nerfs that are pointless.
17:15 this isn't capitalism, it's corporatism. Communists and socialists have been trying to conflate the two for decades, but capitalism is not corporatism.
@@rotisseueryu That's the socialist playbook. Socialism only gets implimented based on lies. Socialim, communism, Marxism, all that junk has failed every time it was tried. Go on, lie about how "iT wAs NEveR TrIEd" before.
@@rotisseueryu Denying reality and pretending that histroy doesn't exist, and then trying to lump someone who's political center with the "boogey man conservatives" classic brainwashed political sheep.
I wasted a decade of my life being “chewed up and spit out” by that poorly managed industry. It was an “eternal nightmare of crunches and layoffs.” From 2004-2014, I was hired, worked like a dog with zero work/life balance, and laid off by 4 studios. All of the games I worked on were “Live Services” and no longer exist. This means I have NOTHING to show for those 10 good years of my 20s/30s and the amount of work I invested into those projects & studios. If 10 years of dealing with the Mean Girls work environment wasn’t enough to convince me to leave that industry, the year of homelessness I endured after being laid off sure was. I am incredibly grateful I was able to switch industries back in 2014. The industry wasn’t stable when I finally left 10 years ago. I can only imagine how awful it is now as I approach my 50s. Entertainment industries are not viable for those seeking stability or any real means to survive for any extended period of time.
I remember interviewing with Big Huge Games, Firaxis, and Zenimax back in 2008. You may have been one of the overworked, stressed out, and tired developers that spooked me from jumping on a games industry job. The allure of helping create a world, characters, and stories that are bigger than what you can achieve alone was very attractive. But to be treated as disposable by an industry focused on its investors and executives at the expense of its creators was and continues to be depressing. Society needs to limit the role massive corporations play in shaping our world.
Remember when games used to have dreamy soundtracks like donkey kong that made you feel like you were loved and cared for like the zelda songs and super mario galaxy type music. Those songs are feelings converted into sound and you can feel the creators dream spill into your heart from their joy of putting true love in a digital world.
Old school consoles like the Nintendo 64, PS1 and the Gamecube and may others are reliable, well put together little machines. Their durability and longevity has made them age like fine wine. Modern Consoles like the PS5 and others have aged like fine milk. 🤢 The best part about retro? No DRM or mandatory online *needed* to play. Plus retro consoles are easy for small businesses to work with for sales and tech support. If retro is on the rebound I'm really looking forward to another round of couch co-op. It's been too long. ☺
This came from AAA companies allowing their bureaucracy to bloat, so they could handle the new DEI. Bigger bureaucracy, means less money to quality. So, even if DEI did nothing, it would still break the company.
If a company is owned by several random sharehonders, that's not really a capitalist enterprise. You go public, the games are no longer the product, the company is.
I mean, the crunching, the abuse, the last minute change, the predatory micro transactions and to all of that add the DEI checklist... No surprise the industry is a hellhole not worth the effort. Specially when your bosses seem only interested in screwing you and the costumer. Their collapse was coming sooner or later, all because it's all lights and show, but no real essence of replayability, in modern gaming.
Triple AAA ....... Quality dropped, stories garbage, bugs and glitches are a feature... Hate on their customer because you are entitled to... oh no how could this be happening.
Gamers who are now in their 30-40’s remember how good games were once upon a time, its not skipped a generation by any means and they just want quality games to spend their hard earned money on and that’s been proven with the success of black myth wukong.
We need less corporate video games. We need to bring back indie passion projects. Whenever you hear corporate video game it’s a big company trying to invest a couple of million and fleece the unknowing masses of their money. Put in gambling mechanics, gotcha mechanics, hard selling, etc… all to trick their customers into paying more and more money. The initial purchase wasn’t enough, they need addicted hooked on their games. It’s disgusting.
Nah we should make executives play the single most corporate game literally every single move they do requires money we should make them play a witch’s brew of a mobile game and a extremely experimental indie game while getting eye screwed by ads everywhere and spending more money…and after a certain period they have to pay 90 dollars to renew their game owners license and have them play it on a console that works off a subscription model if you don’t pay it your console immediately shuts down and deletes all your games and save data forcing you to start again and again and again and again and sometimes it randomly plays ads before you can pay again and that ads had ads and that ad has ads
They don’t need millions to make a fun game not every game needs to be AAA why can’t big companies like EA just work on multiple smaller projects why not make a game that rivals Kenshi with a more experienced team Kenshi was made by a solo dev and it cost about $40,000 and it took 12 years sure it might be slightly more since it’s a bigger team but it certainly does not need 100 fkn million not everything needs mocap and hyper realism and fancy shadows or whatever to justify all that
Tell gamers you hate them and your product isn't made for them. Go out of Business. Wonder why anyone would want to work in the industry. Hope they figure it out eventually.
lots of kids get fooled into going into game design and get degrees. they get hired and make less needed to survive on their own. my friend went to college in cali. got a degree. didnt get a good career.. became a beta tester for activision. his parents had to pay his bills for 2 years. then he gave up because he never got promoted to do anything.. now, im not saying he had talent, but it shouldnt require a degree to become a shitty beta tester. anyone in the world can beta test for a living. just the standard of pay is complete nonsense. i know 2 kids who went to full sail.. expensive university.. both hired by blizzard. both quit within 6 months because they couldnt handle the pace of blizzard. they were overwhelmed. people think game design = easy.. when its an extremely harsh and brain draining type of career. most cant handle it. its something you have to learn on your own, built up resilence to over the course of a decade.. then get your degree, then your career. otherwise youre jumping into the deep end of a pool when you can barely tread water.
"His parents had to pay his bills for 2 years" lol why? He couldn't get another part time job? I guess he would be ded if his parents weren't around... Gen Z is built weird.
I still playing my old games collection. The newer game that I had brought was Resident Evil: The Village that it was used for 14 bucks at a local video games shop
They ignored their core customer base, they ignored everyone's warning. They thought we would keep on buying anything and everything. The masses silently protested, and now they're going "Oh no, games aren't worth it anymore". Oh no, they are worth it. We still buy them, we still play them. We just don't give a damn about their slop.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 A lot of that is people who don't necessarily care about the politics behind the screen and they're just buying the latest and "greatest" because that's what's available. It's also streamers and rage players.
Japan's game industry is the opposite when it come to layoffs however this due the labor crisis the country is experiencing. Japanese game developers can't afford layoff anybody because very few young people are entering the Japan's labor market. And for the record Japan's employment crisis isn't just affecting the games but whole industries.
Japan's population is very old now. They need to send me over there to become a resident of the Waifus. It's time to repopulate that country like Genghis Khan.
Yeah, they have nowhere near enough young people to replace the sea of people who're ready to retire. China has the opposite issue but in a worse way. The young aren't into the hardcore work style, the nine-nine-six system, and China has a serious gender problem right now. Thanks to the one child rule they enforced for decades there's so few women compared to the masses of men. Everyone wanted a male heir. Can't say what happened to Japan. China was self inflicted but Japan seems to have just steered away from having kids for some reason.
@@fracturedraptor7846 I started following this woman on RUclips, "chinesewithlia" born in China that now lives in the US. She runs a Mandarin learning business. Tempted. She did a shorts video where she said she was born under the 1 Child Policy. Dad works. Mom worked, but had to get back into the work force. Grandma says "I'll take care of my grand daughter". OK. Mom comes over early to pick the child up one day. Summer. Probably over 100 F. Kid is dressed up like an Eskimo. Grandma says "Babies need to stay warm". This woman said, "Girls were not worth anything. Grandma wanted me gone, so my parents could try again and maybe get a boy". She said, she was never in contact with her grandmother ever again. Her parents cut grandma off. That was 20 something years ago. Lia needs to watch herself though. Went back to China to visit family in the last year and she's not afraid to point things out. She started the biz in China. The original web site ended in cn. Japan, if you are to "Succeed", you need to move to the megalopolises. Where, because you have to, means living in a closet and running in place. Moving to a city of say a million people and it's rural around it means you are a failure. They don't want to have children in that environment. There's nothing decent job wise in the sticks. They have a weird way of doing things when it comes to homes. Look up Akiya houses. There's 8 to 8.5 million abandoned homes in Japan. It's extremely hard to get one of those 8 million+ Akiya houses. You have to jump through incredible hoops. Those houses just sit there and deteriorate. I believe a house is grandfathered in with existing building codes as long as the owner owns it. If owner passes, family doesn't want to touch it. They are on the hook to bring it up to code. Not just the house, everything in it. Watched a guy from Australia that was half Malay that married a Japanese woman. They bought one. Farmer died. Everything but his body was in the house. Everything. Cars on the property. Photos, clothes, tools. Family wouldn't touch it. If they did, they owned it. The cars were old but runnable. The hassle to get them registered was too much. The guy had them taken out on a flat bed to a junk yard.
1:29 yeah you’re not wrong. Currently trying to get either an original Xbox or a PlayStation 2 so I can play some games from my childhood again. Solely because there’s not many new games that interest me all that much. And the ones that do/ did, I already finished multiple times
i spent my entire life chasing the video game career.. 90 percent of my life. then things would pop up like Lucas Arts locking their employees inside the workplace for months, unable to see their families or to go anywhere because games needed to be finished.. before 2014.. game design careers were extremely harsh. after all i saw.. i was like phew. glad i never got into this type of career and used my artistic talents elsewhere.
I'm retired. My cousin is in his 70s. Commercial artist. First job was board games for Milton Bradley. That was the 1970s. He saw that as a dead end. Not because of PCs, but a very structured assembly line method to the "Art". He spent his whole career more or less doing Fortune 500 company annual report designs. Was a partner in a 3 man shop. Sold his stake and worked from home. Lives in a kit built log cabin. The last 20 years of his career was everything was photoshop. I asked him when was the last time he actually drew by hand or painted anything for money or personal fulfillment. His answer was "Heh......". His daughter, my 2nd cousin, went to NYU and got a "Journalism" degree. First 2 jobs were a copy editors for 2 small time national magazines. Those are gone. I think one was owned by National Geographic and the other by Conde Nast. She then moved on writing ad copy for consumer products. Then went free lance. Africa, South America, India. Ended up in Switzerland. For 4-5 years wrote and produced videos for internal consumption for Airbus. Stuff like training videos. Married a MIT guy that worked for the WHO. He's Swedish. They now live about 20 miles north of Stockholm. The only "Journalism" she really did was when she freelanced. They have a kid now that is 3-4 years old. She teaches yoga now. If you asked both did they ever conceive what they thought would be and what actually happened would have happened, they'd both say "Nope".
I am 37. I already have more games, movies and other free time activities to last me till I am gone. And even with all AAA failing, there's a ton of indie's out there that occasionally publish bangers for under 20 bucks and void of MTX... There's absolutely no leverage for bad content. Or even average stuff for that matter.
The market is saturated but that just means you need to innovate, in game play mechanics and in themes and stories. The corporat hierarchy can't innovate. Could be risky, controversial, upset advertisers, upset regulators, upset Muslims, upset the CCP, upset Christians, etc. So you have to just churn out the same anodyne crap that says nothing relevant to anyone. *shrug*
I'm just playing indie games and old JRPGs. Suikoden 1-2 remake comes out in March looking forward to that best JRPGs I've ever played. Games nowadays are woke and buggy AF.
I haven't bought a PS5 because all the "good" games seem the same. I thought about giving up on video games this morning. I realized, wow, most games have no replay value now. I'm hoping GTA 6 and the new Dragon Age coming in October regain my faith.
Games in 2015 were awesome: Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight (after the Bugfixes), Fallout 4, Pillars of Eternity, Ori and the Blind Forest, Soma, Rainbow Six Siege, Dying Light, Resident Evil Revelation 2, Bloodborne, Rocket League, Until Dawn, Warhammer End Times Vermintide 1, World of Warships, Prison Architect, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Cities Skyline, Lego Jurassic Park, Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain, Resident Evil HD Remake, Ashes of the Singularity, Satellite Reign, Evoland 2, Shadowrun: Hongkong, Victor Vran, ARK: Survival Evolved, GTA 5, Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin, Hotline Miami 2, Homeworld Remastered, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Total War: Attila, Hand of Fate, Apotheon, Darkest Dungeon, Life is strange EP1, Grim Fandango Remastered, Anno 2205, Dirt Rally, Project Cars, Journey, Untertale, Divinity Original Sin, Shovel Knight, Lego Dimensions, Mad Max, Yakuza Zero, Mortal Kombat X, Assassins Creed Syndicate, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, Wolfenstein Old Blood, Fran Bow, King's Quest, DmC: Devil May Cry - Definitive Edition, Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect, Episode 1, Broforce and many more. Games in 2016 to 2018 were also good. Since 2019/2020 gaming got really bad.
If you stop and look for a moment, every facet of our lives is becoming very unsustainable and falling apart due to insane amounts of greed. Everything we in know and love is falling apart because the top 5% can't deal with a 5% pay cut out of their billions.
it all started with mmorpgs, we found out players will pay for 2x EXP, 2x drop rates and "Sealing Equipment" to trade with fellow players. it's weird how far these greedy practices evolved to reach not only single player games but the companies can't be arsed to make a product that doesn't use a skill tree, crafting and checkpoint towers.
Yeah the fact that you can patch games after they’re released means you don’t have any more permanently broken games, but it also means game developers got lazy with product testing because they knew they could fix anything that the players found.
@@mobiusraptor7 Which is why games like OOT had several bugfix revisions made before it even launched, several games were drastically improved in localization and Mario and Luigi: BiS has a severe graphics corruption bug on the secret boss in the EU version. I never said that current games are not completely in the toilet, I only said that the whole talk about "releases without bugs" and "this was always super polished before patches" is cap. There were many releases with impactful bugs and oversights back then too.
If you want to know what kind of company Bioware is now, they laid off their whole character team thinking they were done the game. Then my husband applied after he was laid off in January. They wanted him to work for nothing on contract and kept changing the dates to just THREE months of work and then got angry when he found out about the layoffs didn't want the job. He's trying to get out of the industry ASAP.
Uncharted 4 was the red flag for me of the fallout of a great industry that I love being taken over along with other industries by multicolored activist tourists and corporations.
My ps4 blew up. Got a ps5 for christmas. Haven't played a ps5 game on it yet. Haven't plugged in the ps5 controller other than to set the thing up. I use the ps4 controller to play ps4 games on it. I think something is very wrong with the gaming industry and i know what it is. We feel like we're being scammed for maximum profits and we are. The broken buggy game is bait to lure you into their DLC plans.
@@Omer_Sastim_is_turtle_bot N64 games were the most expensive in comparison to all the other consoles (PlayStation, Sega Saturn, N64) and PC during the 90s.
i stopped purchasing games at launch when ACU dropped and was broken to all hell, it was at that moment when i knew it was never worth preordering any game and not purchasing any game at launch, and i was right because it seemed every year more and more games were released buggy or broken at launch and they were still expecting the customer to pay full price for this shit. i have learned to wait a few years after the game has been launched, because by then the game is finally ready, where they fixed all the bugs if not the majority of them and dropped all the DLC and as a bonus i get the game in full for a far cheaper deal, so my expectations are never disappointing when i start to play said game. all the people who purchase games at launch are the beta testers who pay to be the beta testers, in which they should be paying you, but these guys are usually idiots and they are willing to pay to be the beta testers for these companies.
@@richardjohnson7656 i'm thinking some of these dudes aren't either telling the truth or they were in Canada which makes sense in why the higher prices, but you and i remember the price was $50 bucks in America.
What did they expect when they said that "Gamers are [deleted]", that "Gamers are [istaphobes]" and when every time these wierdos say anything its followed up with violent rhetoric against THE CUSTOMER?! Why...OH WHY...would gamers or anyone else want to invest thier (very limited now) money on companies and products that do not serve them? Its such a mystery...i doubt we'll ever figure out how this happened. If only there was something that made it so obvious...some sort of chain of events over a period of time to correlate cause and effect. Oh well....good riddance to this trash industry. I revel in it's hubric collapse.
0:53: Regarding journalism I don't think it's any of those that are to blame; social media just makes professional game reviewing obsolete as a profession.
Two big reasons i think... 1. they don't make games for gamers anymore, they make them for propaganda 2. they don't sell games anymore, they rent them to you, and they can change/censor them on you at any time, and take the game away from you for any reason, so they're not worth paying 60$ or more, because unlike a NES or Playstation 2 game, it will be unplayable when the server gets shut down or some copyright thing happens. Like just look at grand theft auto 4, if you want to ligit play it, as it was meant, you need to get a disk version now.
@@BigDaddy-pe5xi do you ever wonder what would happen if steam for some reason started banning peoples accounts for any reason at all? there is no reason they can't. I have 300+ games i've collected over the past 20 years, poof! all gone.
Myself playing a F2P mmo for over 2 year and really enjoing it , why should i spend almost 100$ for mostly unfinished and problematic games for at best 50-100h play time ?!
The second video game crash is here and it was longtime coming. AAA game companies like EA and Activision has become so big and bloated that there is a lack of competition. Digital games is a bane for the customers cause publishers now release uncompleted games and feed DLC for their own greed.
I refuse to buy anything that requires an active internet connection, regular internet access, multiplayer with single player as an afterthought, micropayments or pay to win. The products I do want the studio has no interest in making and new games are just not that well thought out. The last new game I bought was BG3 but gave up on it because there wasn't enough ability to adjust difficulty.
At first I thought BG3 was going to be fine, but obviously overhyped by the industry at the time. and then when the game came out we found out that the devs were quite a fruit basket.
Investors are killing the industry, I don't think we are far from another video game crash. Which I can't wait for! We'll see a refresh which is sorely needed
Remember when gamers made games? When artists designed them with a singular artistic vision? When a lack of resources spurred innovation? When creative control was something you didnt have to fight for because the creator just wanted to make a good game, with everyone behind them? Now? Corporate box checking. Hundreds of millions with crappy products as a result. Politically correct nonsense deciding how attractive or unattractive the characters are allowed to be. More and more and more the industry is removed from those who just wanna play good games. You've got developers insulting players who don't wanna play PC crap or blaming fans for other failures. No wonder it's all falling apart.
The only games worth it right now are old school games. Grab an emulator if you don't have an old, working console and you'll have a blast! Plus, characters look great even if the graphics aren't up to par.
@@markcarpenter6020Palworld is an indie game, and replacing male/female with "type 1/2" is enough to show that the game sucks that it crashed the game.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 I think the bigger problem with pal world was lack of content. Though I think they have released a bunch of stuff since I played it. I can live with body types. It's when games put in pronouns (like tiny Tina's wonderlands) that I wanna break things.,.
Talking about lean production. Me and four other solo devs are all helping each other with our games. Feels like a bandit camp, or a weird commune. We're all making great progress by doing so, and it really shows in the quality of the products when we all have mutual access to specialists. I can keep this up with no income for maybe 3 years, and I probably have a year left of development. Not sure about the others. We all have work to do, so we don't interfere. Answer the question, produce the code or art, and go back to your own work. It's awesome.
There was no video game crash in Europe - specifically the UK - in the 80s. I know what happened in the USA but over in the UK we had a personal computer boom. The ZX Spectrum, the C64 and the Amstrad CPC all sold millions of units. Rare got their start on the old 8-bit computers as did many other game devs due to the sheer accessibility of the machines. This was before either Sega or Nintendo started to make inroads into the market. So, yeah, the video game crash was more localised to the US market in the 80s.
I'm 27. One of the first games i played was Rollercoaster Tycoon. A game made by a single dev. 2 years ago i got a new gaming PC. The first game i installed? RCT 1&2. Old games were fun. They were made to be fun. New games are made for the "wider audience ". They're not made to be fun.
I saw an ad for the Star wars game outside my local toy store and I did a double take. Over £100 for a game with digital extras. What a load of shit. I remember games would come with printed manuals, maps, posters. The thing is, they want growth and profit all the time which is just unsustainable. The market is already flooded when plenty of people only play 1 game like the latest COD or Fortnite.
Snagged an emulator and started playing Final Fantasy Tactics again. Forgot that even though Ramza looks like a baby boy he's fuckin' fierce as hell. "Lay down your swords or die holding them!"
Man I dumped ALL my console games with a cart dumper recently and threw practically every emulator under the sun on my phone, all 3 tactics games went straight on even though I have war of the lions on Android already. Advance for gba, War of the lions for PSP, a2 for ds. I love them so much. No need for OG PS1 tactics IMO but still :P different experience, I may do that too eventually. But in the interest of playing my old glorious library, I practically have it all on my phone now. To top that off I got a hold of Yuzu before they shat the bed and put on final fantasy X/X-2 hd remakes plus XII hd remake too. So good compared to current(/mobile) game slop.
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To quote a stranger "The people who used to bully you for loving Video Games are now in charge of making it."
And they hate us still. That did not change.
@Faust_YT circle of life? More like a straight line to HELL
Thats what i say since years... Do i know you?
Same happened with starwars,marvel, and lord of the rings
same with star trek and star wars. basically the jocks have taken over nerd culture. not to join us but to destroy what we love because they're BULLIES
The fact that old games are thriving means that customer taste hasn't changed at all. The industry abandoned it's audience.
YUP
For a wider broader auDiEnC3
And failed to aquire the audience they wanted.
@TheBayzent I realized also that overall mechanics of games haven't changed. They just upped the graphics in small ways towards realism. But fundamentally the original doom is not that different from call of duty. You have a 300 gb download for a rehash it's jot worth it. Especially 60 or 70 bucks for a game that you could play for a fraction of the cost in an older version
Well they're targeting the modern audience... Which is also, non-existent
Toys R' Us: Dead
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Dead
Toys in Cereal Boxes: Dead
Arcades: Dead
Comics: Dead
Beloved Movie Franchises: Dead
The world is dying. Everything good has been destroyed. Those lucky enough to have been kids in the 80's and 90's were living at the height of awesome. Early 00's was the twilight. It's over folks.
Yeah. I had a good childhood with the 00’s but adulthood in Gen Z culture SUCKS
2007 was the true end of the era, and the birth of the new era.
TRUTH
The Capitalism cycle is ending. It's a snake that eat itself. Once it dead off. Other animals will eat the body. Get fat. Till a new snake show up.
The days of going to school and having that one friend with GTA San Andreas cheat codes on paper was it.
2014 - Gamers are Death, Gamers Are Over - GameJurno
2024 - OMG!!! Please let me get my job - GameJurno
🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gamers: well you said we are death, here cometh the scythe!
I painfully agree with you
@@sunso1991 "We have come! We are death!" ~Dark Angels legion
it's not that we want games to end, it's that we want the preditory practices or subversion of the gaming industry to take place, we still want to play games, but we have seen who these companies pander to, and we have seen them rip us off all the time, it just took us a while to figure it all out.
we still want to game, we just don't like all the power these gaming companies have to destroy the industry, they drew first blood with the gamers, and we are finishing it off to start a new, just hopefully what we start over with is better and isn't such a scam and isn't filled with panderverse BS.
we just want video games to be great again, and they can't seem to make that possible anymore..
AAA is bloated and dying. Video Game Crash 2 is here.
because they constantly put out unfinished product.. everyone is paying for alpha and betas. its pathetic
Soon. Very soon.
It's Coming!
Vaguely related, and idk if anything Nintendo is considered triple A, but I'm hoping they capitalize on everything else's failure and give us something that isn't just a slightly upgraded Switch. I'd be cashing in on nostalgia and bring back Wii interface/functions and a bunch of the old Mii titles for replay, plus something like an in-universe sequel to SM64. Is it fresh and original, no, but if you can't do that a faithful homage to nostalgic classics will still be easy cash.
@@turntoyouIf anything. Nintendo is one to root for these days. Their recent releases do point to a brighter future come next gen and will likely capitalize on everyone’s failures.
If purchasing isn't owning, pirating isn't theft.
Amen, brother.
I'm currently watching the MCU for the first time without paying for anything more than internet and electricity, ifyouknowwhatImean. 😂
bro is just copying pasting ready made sentences he found online
@mirceazaharia2094 I mean, you are able to purchase and own the mcu movies on Blu-ray and be able to watch it as many times as you want. So pirating would be theft if you agree with the logic of "if purchasing isn't owning, pirating isn't theft"
Preach
@@7stringguitarplayer the problem is a lot of things are streaming or online only now a days as they kill off physical media. So buying physical media (AKA DVD, Blu-ray, GDROM, ect.) means you own it, its is you're for all time unless you lose it or some one physically steals it. But now if you BUY a video game off a online place and in the future they drop it, you better not delete it off your old PC or you'll never have it again. If your movie streaming service drops old content, you can't watch it ever again. Sort of like when you've put years and thousands of dollars into a MMO and the company shuts the servers off and you can't play it online. Also, if you say naughty things online or during game play, you might violate a TOS and have the game you paid for taken away from you.
Im playing 8 year old games in order to let them know that what they are putting out is shit
same. but im a big fan of company of heroes 3. awesome RTS. one of my fav games of the past 10 years. everything else sucks.
20 year old games. Maybe even 30 if I dig up that list of games. Really. I have a long backlog of gaves that are years to decades old, lol....I shouldn't laugh. It is quite sad...still, I need to get around to playing them >.>
@@Qardo warcraft III is still up to standards. still fun. just some people are waaaay to pro and havent stopped playing the game for decades. lol
Exactly. They keep crapping on franchises people love in order to push their woche agenda, and people are saying no thanks and walking away. They deserve to close down. The AAA industry needs to check out until they take the hint and give people products they want.
My wife and I just bought Until Dawn. Even the recent games made by the same company are not as good as it is.
It's almost as if *not* catering to players would affect sales...
Not catering and telling them that you don't like them
Fired up my PS2 the other day and completely forgot the world, the way it should be.
My PS5 is collecting dust. Im playing the Switch and old ps3 and 360 games.
Switch 2 needs to hurry up.
The Switch is worth it because it has a massive library of games both classics titles and new titles 👾🎮
@@naturalistwarrior
It's classics lineup still pales compared to what they had offered in options before.
I don't find the switch worth investing.
Only have Stellar Blade on mine. Have been enjoying old games on it like Darksiders...
This is the way to do it
The whole entertainment industry needs a full bankruptcy and reset
It won't happen long as these flies keep positions of power.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 Flies?
More like leaches...
@@joshuarichardson6529more like us keep giving them money
I think the biggest thing it needs is geographic diversity. Stop making every studio in CA or a couple other "California Lite" locations.
definitely
I remember when games were made by a handful of nerdy guys in a garage. They had total creative freedom to make something they loved.
The good ol' days of gamers making games for gamers.
@@AntiRiku exactly
@@JohnDoe-ef3wo You ever heard of indie games?
@@DeepFriedOddish problem is indie games now are almost as woke as AAA 😞
Yup like ID software
Ah "consumer taste change"!
It is like a steak house started to serve vegan eggplants as ribeye. Then calls customers who refusing it names.
Then act confused why people dont come back
A better analogy doesn't exist, yours is perfection!
@@Omer_Sastim_is_turtle_bot thank you sir!
Yes, this is it exactly.
I hate eggplants (outside of like two recipes).
Excellent analogy.
The strip club became a gay bar and wondered why the old male customers quit going. 😂
I haven't touched my PS5 in months. I'd rather play retro games because they're actually what video games are supposed to be....FUN.
Made the mistake of buying a ps4 to play a few games and now I own that whole library on steam releases, not wasting the money on a console again, no game has come out to still make it feel worth it.
'member when you bought a game and it was complete...no wait for à couple of month for the rest of the story or.buy this better weapon, because the best weapon were part of sidequest/secrets. Miss those time. For me snes will be the best console
Me too. I have just been playing Switch and my Odin 2. Modern games have no fun value right now. They are all made the same and expensive. I vowed that I am not getting another PlayStation console. The Switch 2 is my last console that I will ever get. Triple A games are just not my thing anymore.
My 20 y/o son plays my Jailbroken PS Vita more than he plays his PS5.
Got my PS5 in 2021. Haven’t really done anything with it. I got it anticipating the release of two exclusives in particular, one of which has since been cancelled and the other is still unreleased but leaks of story and gameplay have left me disinterested
10 years of looking for that "modern audience" and they're still nowhere to be found.
don't worry they want another 10 years to find them
remember when steve jobs said, "we need to know what the customer wants before they do."
yeah these execs arent steve jobs. I don't think they could predict what their wives want out of a happy marriage let alone something as abstract as "fun."
As with other parts of American entertainment, folks are rediscovering older media- thanks to these entertainment firms being more forcus on pushing agenda- rather than pushing great product.
Shhh the villains will target that next
@@LandStrider23They already have. Even the old video games are censored. I would support Japan-only video games.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 If you can manage to go and find the original releases and emulate them, those ones are usually clear of the BS. Just means you might have to sail the Seven Seas for some of those original versions of games being remade by the D.I.E. nowadays.
Technically speaking, I can't tell you where to find said old video game ROMs and whatnot to go back to retro games via emulations and I technically can't condone it because it's technically illegal.
What I will say is I completely understand why people go and do that stuff, especially nowadays when most AAA games (and even a lot of AA games like Helldivers 2) are getting filled with people who don't care about the games, don't care about the hobby, and they actively berate you for being involved in the hobby (i.e. if you wanna know why I said Helldivers 2 is getting infected by this stuff, the devs may not be crazy but their community managers used to spout D.I.E. talking points. I take that as a sign of if they still work there, the devs are effectively co-signing it).
Last time I bought anything AAA was D2's Final Shape and that was because I got suckered into it after seeing that the raid and everything looked good on week 1. After week 1 though, I ditched it because new-Bungie's typical BS started seeping in (terrible grind, loot being good but the sources for it all suck to do, etc.) and I regretted buying Final Shape.
I should've known better but I was a moron and thought "Bungie surely isn't that stupid as to kneecap their own 'final shot' at not collapsing, right?" I clearly underestimated how deep the combination of rot and brainrot (yes, there is a distinction in this case) had set in.
I don't think it's just agenda. The respective industries have backed themselves into a corner through risk aversion. Gambling risks the bottom line but creativity is a risky endeavour. Maybe the creative industries are finally realising you can't eternally run a creative business by sticking to tried and tested, formulaic methods.
Old games like old music. Old comics. Old cartoons. Older everything is just better.
Damn straight especially in the 90s and 00s
The decline of society.
Creators used to care about the product. Now it's just corporatized crap pumping out a new edition of the same old shit year after year.
@@johnw8578 In America yess
@@geraldmorgan6906 all about the money
These have been covered ad nauseum, but
1. Games aren't designed to be fun any more, they are designed to maximize micro-transactions
2. Games released are unfinished, buggy, and many times barely playable
3. There is no depth any more, stories and characters are very shallow, level design is lazy, mechanics are overly simplistic, etc.
4. Too many repetitive, time wasting type quests are added to make it seem like there is a lot to do when there really isn't.
5. Open world designs have gotten worse over the years instead of better.
Etc., etc.
In other words, treat your fans like dummies who will take any abuse
Nah, there is a game for everyone, but now games are being made Have gone woke.
Remember when video games use to be fun
There are still some but definitely far fewer I got hopes for dragon ball sparking zero
I 'member!
Yup! They need to go back to the way they were in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s like Kneon said.
Video games are always worth it. Some of you guys are just blinded by nostalgia, play the same type of games and dont diversify, or incapable of moving on. Gaming is getting better. In the past 4 years I have played some of the best games yet across all genres. Time to choose another hobby then if you are not content with gaming.
Recognizable, and having more replayability. Oh wait, it's Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble.
It's not a coincidence that the majority of the most played games are all over 10+ years old.
That’s pretty much all I play with the exception of something like Balders gate.
And the only newer games that get played tend to be more Indy stuff.
Shit, I pull out my old ps3 black ops game and play online still. It's only team deathmatch but atleast it's better than the shit they keep pumping out
*cough* made by "problematic" OLD WHITE MEN *cough*
Just finished New Vegas again and have started Oblivion for the first time.
The disgusting way the executive class has been acting at videogame companies has turned me away from buying new games. I'll play my existing games for the foreseeable future.
Games stopped being Fun because Corporations monetized the Gameplay or progression, industry got full of talentless people then came wokeness with over-politization to make things way worse. As things stand, games can only get worse. People realized far too late and their pushback has been too feeble.
That and DEI. Video games would be selling if they valued consumers and didn't try to over monetize their games
disagree. while i do agree that some companies will continue to over monetized games. i think their is some good companies around that will put out good games. Baulders Gate 3 and Elden Ring are excellent examples of good products. Steam has also made space for indie companies. You might find some great stuff if you look there.
@@ttrev007 Baldur's gate 3 was example that was JUST BARELY good enough. Still woke DEI charactered to hell. DnD is a damaged product
@@ttrev007 Yeah, an ever decreasing minority.
None of those seem to affect any of the games I play. Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Nintendo, etc
They ruined the movie, comic book industry, now they ruined the gaming industry, they will ruin every media unril you can't consume anything.
You will CONSOOME 🦗🐛🪲🪳🪱
@@Marinealver Sadly we will, sadly we will.
Until you ruin them.
The gaming industry WAS ruined. DEI initiatives did little less than hasten setting up the noose. Microtransactions among other issues were always there to deter gamers for greed.
Heck most of these industries have a whole slew of other issues besides DEI. Personally I think DEI is a symptom of the issues, not what caused the failure of these industries.
@@hail2jigglypuff168 DEI was the "defense" for the scummy practices.
Greed ruins everything. People can't just have enough. It's never enough. Infinite growth is killing everything we know.
That article was complaining that 50 year old men were not happy with the new products.
They forget that those middle aged men have been gamers since before it was cool to game, since the times when you would be physically beat and bullied for playing video games or reading comics. They kept the industry afloat.
When these old guys are dissatisfied, they need to listen to them!
There's also the fact those 50 year old men also brought their enjoyment of video games to the their children or nephews and pointed out which ones were good and which to avoid except to see how bad they were. Mario 64 = good, Superman 64 = bad.
When you look at demographics, the generation X males have all the way along been the most prolific playerbase, even as they aged. Constantly listed in their stats for years on end.
@@DH-xw6jp - mileage varies on the whole getting beat up and bullied. Some of the old gamers were bullies themselves, hustling lunch money from younger kids for arcade money, or whatnot. By and large gamers became a community among neighborhood kids that stayed over and played games together on the weekends. Free food and free video games at friends houses were a big part of what built the gaming industry.
i'm no boomer gamer, but i do agree with this idea, but i have come to understand it would be better if they just made all games modifiable, because at that point, nobody is there to dictate what kinds of games you play because everything is up to your choice's in how you choose to play your game, no need for Sony to get their commifornia agenda to control what you play or see in your game, because it's not up to them, it's up to you in what you want in your game regardless their agenda to propagandize to you further.
modding is the way to go, it's the only thing that makes these games free with all the freedom we want in them, without some butthurt company trying to control the content you play.
this is another reason why i won't purchase some games anymore.
@@5226-p1e there might be boomer gamers, but they're in 70's and 80's. Gen-X were the first to really embrace gaming. Boomers either really liked them because they were trying to be the friend parents or cool aunt or uncle, or they thought they were a waste of time.
The industry is bloated with people who does not know what gaming is really so it is inevitable will get layoffs.
What worries me is its hitting the ones that actually can make good stuff as well.
I feel this crash was intentionally done maliciously than natrually.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 the good ones can get back into it always, even as indie devs.
@@madness8897 the indie dev scene is brutal, the average game makes 7k $ or less…
if they don't learn their lesson though, this could just be an excuse for the activists to push out more talent. "Oh the law's on our ass about discrimination and firing people. Well, we can just say the economy did it." It's a double edged sword and we'll have to see how each company handles it.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 It was. The woke saw that we enjoyed something that wasn't about them so they destroyed it.
The saddest thing about the corpos not understanding gaming is that the business model is the same as movies. So you’d think companies like Disney would understand the movie business model.
Funny how people are still playing 10+ old games
It's almost as if games 10+ years ago were good and not bloated the "modern features"
No man's sky is 8 years and going strong.
Playing Final Fantasy IX from 2002, haha. What a great time for video games that was!
well kind of, for example, i still play both skyrim and FO4, both these games were kinda woke, but they put in that nonsense long before people started noticing.
my only reason to play these games is because of the unfretted access to the modding scene, because with mods your possibilities are near endless, so if someone makes a non woke mod for FO4 called " grounded commonwealth ", that takes out and changes all the woke trash in FO4 and makes the game more well, grounded in based reality, that can always be found online and played, now the Nexus website banned the mod and the creator of the mod, because it wasn't woke and that goes against their weak woke mind virus ideology, but you can find it on some other website, you just have to do a little searching for it.
same goes with other mods not found on the nexus with the LL name, so again, they can always be found on some other website, this is what i meant by unfretted access to modding, so long as that still exists, we can always make our games the way we want to play them without some corporate asshat making the changes for us only to later censor the game, that won't happen with a game that is fully modifiable.
so i will continue to play these old games for as long as i please, but i know these games origins are to push the message of wokeness, but that can always be corrected via the modding machine.
so it's no wonder i still play these games and will forever choose these games over everything else that is released.
a lot of new games just go insane tryign to have "next gen graphics" and forget most customers DON'T have next gen hardware.
@@marhawkman303 it's a bit more complicated then just being graphic heavy focused, especially with them making female characters ugly on purpose but not male characters.
It's way more than just graphics.
I'm absolutely shocked that a business that is based around fun, whimsy, and passion died when soulless corporations took over.
I wonder why paint by number art isn't in museums.
I nearly spat my drink! Paint by numbers 😂 that is pretty much spot on with the gaming industry!
Games feeling the same, costing $70-80+ dlc+ online membership+ lot boxs+ ads+ copy pasted stories. I wonder why people are not buying new video games. It couldn't be the hundreds of dollars per game. New consoles under performing to push photo realism. While only able to get 24-30 fps .
There's always retro games. 🤣
unless you are a mercante and it's all guaeyyy all the time non stop
To this day I still play the old Carmen Sandiego games on my emulator. 😂
It's fuuny, watching the new Outlaws gameplay just made me want to replay the dark forces/jedi knight series.
I've been jumping into them more and more these days. The only issue there is if you like physicals... you're either gonna have to deal with legal resellers or yard sales, and the latter is usually a stroke of luck to find CIB and clean while the former can be expensive as hell (ex. At a re:gen they had Wayne's World for $100+), so you're better off emulating from either a PC or a handheld unless you have the money to pay up.
Indie games just seem to have much better ideas these days. Recently played an indie game called Sanabi and felt that that's the type of story that should've come out of AAA titles with all that funding.
Consumers tastes haven’t changed, devs have been pushing things gamers don’t want and they are failing.
A whole lot of tourists thought they could make money while pushing their ideology on gamers, same as journos, and they wonder why no one wants their crap
A game from 1993 that I got today was filled with manuals, tip book, a comic book, all in colour mind you, a behind-the scenes of the making of the game, and more. Even the box was huge and sturdy.
Compare that to games today, you often get absolutely nothing inside besides a manual, it just feels like game studios don't give a damn about making the experience magical or exciting anymore
Game manuals don't even seem to be a thing anymore.
Modern video games aren’t worth it anymore.
☝ The whole video in one sentence. Bingo. 👍
Only if you don't know where to look.
@@BasedWukongtrue. It's more accurate to say most of it isn't worth it, and the industry usually only pushes the bad stuff, despite making the odd bit of good stuff
you're not entirely wrong. I have a ps5 I was gifted and was absurdly excited. a few years later and the only game I play on it is *still* Elden Ring, which I started playing on the four anyway.
That is a better title!😅
2 main killers of the industry: DEI and Overmonetizing
Would add AAA games releasing in alfa or beta state, then maybe get fixed in upcoming months to be playable.
Micro transactions and macro transactions.
The old killer also remains, which is FOMO.
If one game force you to play 2 hours a day to not miss out, then that is 2 hours taken from all other games.
When a gamer is up to 4 of those FOMO games with dailies, it is 8 hours per day lost from playing other games, ensuring most other games will never get a chance to be played.
@@linusgustafsson2629 very true as well.
@@linusgustafsson2629Absolutely. Add to this the fact that the very survival of a AAA company - who are now stupidly trying to oush the envelope into AAAAAAAA domain - necessisates constant upping of the ante. Bigger games ensure you cant have an active playerbase in more than a couple games at once. Bigger budgets mean more money to recuperate and more loss when going on sales or gamepass. Its a self-digging hole the indistry has cornered itself into.
Without being too specific, this story hits home for me. I've been a gamer since I was 7 and my mom came home with a computer for the family. I'm 46 now so that's quite a long time. When my daughter was growing up, she gravitated towards it too and even decided to make it her career. She went to college for it. She got a job with a major company that everyone knows. I won't out them, but she got laid off from that company. She was unemployed and looking for work for a few months because so few companies were hiring in the industry. She did get a job again, but it was rough for a while. Honestly though, I don't blame video game companies for the layoffs. If they have too many people who are not actually coding or doing artwork, that's not helpful. I get that there are some jobs like manager and accounting, but you don't need THAT many of those jobs. A lot of these companies have like 50% useless jobs.
Probably the 50% doing nothing are the ones shouting on social media that need to be purged, just like Twitter.
Growing up, I wanted to be a chef. Ended up going to culinary school, and after a few years, I discovered that I hated being a chef. Long hours, high stress, low pay, honestly it was complete bullshit.
I wanted to make a career change to be a chef about a decade ago. Instead of going to culinary school first, I worked in a restaurant for a year. I'm glad I did. I found out how low of pay it was. I went back to my office job with my tail between my legs.
@@nickohart3408 in life, you have to learn that certain stuff isn't for you. I remember taking truck driving lessons because I was unemployed and the unemployment center helped people learn a new career. I tried those classes for three weeks. I finally drove a truck and decided it wasn't for me. I would have ended up endangering someone on the road and I couldn't grasp the mechanics of the truck. I backed down. Sometimes, it's not quitting. It's about knowing it's not for you and move to something that is for you. Hope the comment wasn't too long
@@TheDumontShow
i remember wanting to go the trucking route as well, and my motivation at the time was because of the potential money i could make and a disability i had that made it next to impossible to work in other jobs, but i found driving quite boring and i was also very concerned that i could endanger not only myself but others on the road, so i left that idea behind, it's sad because for me driving is easy peasy lemon squeezy, but if i fall asleep at the wheel, it could mean my end or someone else's.
i have also heard about other drivers either falling asleep at the wheel or getting distracted and causing a massive accident that lead to lots of death and destruction and them being held accountable for it, either by being sent to jail for life or prison for life, and that's just to high a price, i mean if it's that bad, than i would rather that responsibility be for the driverless vehicles, because at that point it's all up to insurance without locking someone up.
for years i have always thought that these types of vehicles should have their own damn freeway for this reason alone, and there was a time when the politicians debated that idea, but they decided not to go this route out of it was too expensive, so in the future i could see people demand for it or to make them all driverless automated vehicles.
Same happend to me with Copywriting in advertising. I feel your pain.
@@5226-p1e first of all, than you for sharing your story with me. Second, I didn't account for me sleeping at the wheel. That is another factor of being a truck driver. In life, you can't take certain risk to make a dollar. Imagine if you did have that job and you slept behind the wheel. That's something that makes you step back and reevaluate what you really want to do. I get scared driving next to them on the highway too. I live in Jersey so there are a lot of truck roads in North Jersey, especially towards the city (New York City I speak of) Lastly, I hope you made a great lane for yourself at least. Like I always say, you have to get it where you fit in.
No joke man, I've been going through my old back catalog and replaying stuff rather than paying exorbitant amounts for unfinished crap.
I think we're all sitting on enough of a games backlog that we're fine without buying anything new for a few years while the industry sorts itself out.
Me too, I still have games I haven’t even played yet it my backlog. Lol
@@MSinistrari I've got a backlog of several thousand games and I gain at least a half-dozen more every month.
Yup
I remember someone in dice said, if you dont like it, dont buy it. 😂 OKAY...
They overspend, make their games repetitive, and insult their audience while wondering why no one will buy their product.
Not to mention all the shoved in monetization! Gotta nickel and dime you to make your experience more 'enjoyable' at the cost of doubling or more your initial purchase price!
Consumer taste never changed, the industry was invaded by activists who are more concerned about pushing an agenda, and the media behind it was also invaded by the same activists who write fluff pieces championing an audience that doesn't exist while actively pushing away the consumer base that supported it
The interesting thing few have done statistics on, is how activism and propaganda skyrocketed as women got hired.
Of course I doubt all women are negative for a workplace, probably only those who have pronouns and flags on their social media.
Best comment so far!
I would say that is 1/2 of it. The other 1/2 is insane overmonetization.
@mal35m oh, for sure, there's issues across the board with the publishers and developers. The gaming industry has gotten too big for it's own good and has attracted every type of leach imaginable
dont forget to add + the micro transactions & dlcs
People asking "why make video games anymore?" and not answering it with "because it's our passion" is a good sign. That means that everyone who's only in it for the money will be filtered out, and the passionate individuals will keep going. Exactly what's needed and what gamers want.
Hopefully I have some quality games to look forward to soon.
The moment that stockholders needs overshadowed what gamers want, the industry started to die.
💯 Companies are so tone deaf.
Stockholders are scapegoats for bad decisions. Just because you own stock, does not mean you get to dictate how a business is run.
@@rremnar Yea, if you own a few stocks. But the point is that large firms can take seats on the board. And those large firms are not in it to make games, they are in it to recognize a profit. So decisions are made that impact the bottom line rather than making decisions which will make the best game.
How is this not clear to everybody?
I am a staunch capitalist and even I can see that in the conflict of having a fiduciary obligation and a bonus system tied into the bottom line of the firm vs making decisions that impact the games they are working on has created an impossible situation for Developer CEO's and COO's.
Dude, this is just one of at least three industries that are in a bubble, You ever see that movie the big short? We're at the stage when the agencies and institutions are trying to hide what's going on and pretend nothing is happening just so they can inflate a bit further and save their own ass before they pop. BTW entertainment industry, game industry, real estate industry, and possibly the crash of the very dollar. And food will follow if food prices don't get their shit together. But that one can be blamed on uber. And dont even get me started on cab industry.
@@KirelRedyou would think they’d correlate a quality product to more monetary gain but apparently their minds don’t operate like that lol
I was a gaming journalist from 99-2018. Dozens of different sites, magazines, etc. The problem was I happened to be one of the truth tellers who cared about the fans and the industry. During GamerGate, people like me were attacked, called problematic, and canceled. Those who remain do it for free or very little money. It was doomed for years. Actual gaming is doomed too, since too much DEI and wokism has sullied a hobby that was once just pure escapism.
I miss the old cool gaming magazines I used to buy pre 2010s.
Now, gaming is a wasteland of crap games and over politicization and wokeness.
@@COUNTVLAIDMIR I miss the magazines from the early 2000s or earlier, especially Y2K era stuff. The art styles just popped and everything had so much potential.
Its infected a large part of the AAA game companies, maybe some of the AAs, but the indie devs can't afford that or its a passion project so if it has it in there that actually the devs choice. At least Nintendo hasn't fallen for it and SquareEnix is pivoting away from that garbage (at least the Square section is since they followed it, Enix didn't seem to change).
@@callak_9974 'The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom' & 'Princess Peach Showtime' say otherwise
I hope you're doing better now
A large issue the article ignored is how much social justice activism destroyed entertainment. A lot of those Diversity consultants and non-profits took hundreds of thousands of dollars from game studios, comic studios, and the like and their advice brought back no returns and these companies kept doubling down on stupid until the money ran out.
Yes, corporate is to blame for accepting that poison in. But lets not also forget that those same social justice orgs made the claim that their "advice" would reach a larger and untapped gaming demographic which would grow profits. The people who actually bought and played games made their opinion known that they didn't like the stuff being pushed out and were called a small percentage of the market.
So yeah, the same people now acting surprised why anyone would want to make games now probably have themselves to blame for the industry going to crap in the first place.
There's a few factors that have combined but this is a massive part of it.
The bully consultants extorted millions through threats of cancellations - the activist developers drove away the customers - and the greedy corpos oversqueezed those that were left.
Bed made. Lie in it.
go woke go broke
I think destroying video games is part of the plan. Hell all entertainment for that matter.
Yup, it is.
Straight from the Saul Alinsky playbook, destroy all pop culture so you can rewrite it for the message.
I'm still playing fallout new Vegas and Skyrim over new games
Through in borderlands 2 and you just listed my go to games.
Playing dragons dogma dark arisen on the 360 right now lol
@@AnthonyArribas Kotor 2. Though it took some effort to get it to run right on my PC.
Enjoying tomb raider shadow (while I wait for the classic to release on disc) and Witcher 3 myself. 😊
Most of those are new games. I'll go with Tales of Phantasia on the SNES.
Diversity is killing gaming. Specifically the LGBTQIA lets be real. The proof is in every game that has failed. Imagine if they put a black man who gets oppressed by the cops or someone of authority in every video game. That shit would get so annoying to the point that you quit playing every game that has it in it. Its the same shit
this goes for movies aswell its like they shove it in our faces that men can be rainbow
Real specific example you used. Too specific...
@Katastrofi_X28 Wtf, are you ranting about? Always some far right nutjob injecting thier own personal hate-based agenda into every topic they can that has nothing to do with politics, religion etc.. Oh, and I love how you had to use the example of a black guy and the police when your original statement was about LGBTQ. Go take that bs to the MAGA channel. We are just talking video games over.
@@TwanBankz Good point there are not good movies or tv shows made anymore, you have to go back quite a way like 15 to 20 years to find good tv and movies. There might be good stuff coming out of other countries tho, like India or China or japan or south korea.
@@hypersonicmonkeybrains3418 bro its sad theres some bangers here & there , but almost all movies nowadays(these past couple years) have been almost stale & dipped in the woke agenda crap
There are a ton of Indie games and a huge backlog of older games that still hold up very well today and are sold at cheap prices. This issue is mostly a recent AAA games issue methinks.
Arguably its also a indie problem as alot tend to be from progressive types as well.
I rather get a copy of pokemon Colosseum and xd gale of darkness than to play any moderday pokemon heck even generation 5 pokemon is good compare to the newwr gen pokemon [my opinion at least]
They even sold Darks Souls at $6.99 at my gaming store.
I mean, there are still good games being made and there has always been shit, remember all the movie licensed and shovelware from the PS2-Wii era? Really just don't preorder and listen to fans and you can find the good stuff.
Indies are full of DEI too. Not every indie, but many of them.
And its all 40 years after the last gaming crash too. Wild.
live through those years...knowing how good games were...how magical they were...only to see them turn into this; like watching some you love [delete] from cancer slowly and painfully.
Welcome to my life.
some of this stuff is on cycles; a few decades at most for an industry crash, a century plague, etc.
Local crash. This one will be global.
@@ChazDragoon It's [retrograde] we have to talk in code like this so RUclips won't silence us. The world has gone mad.
This reminds me of what my high school economics teacher, who was a member of the John Birch Society, told all of us in the late 80s. If you want job security, learn how to start your own business and do sales.
Took game dev in college back in '17. Don't get in the industry without connections. It has terrible job security especially with indies. The ones you know about are the exceptions, not the rule.
It shouldn't be the exception honestly.
It's why I don't buy the lowering entry bar for people works as much as they thought.
Like seriously, it's why I don't buy into stuff like the AI stuff they're trying to make the norm now even for making content for games or whatever.
It's always who you know, not what you know... All those years being pushed towards tech only to get there when things are imploding... So much for that.
Yes for every indie success story there are hundreds of forgettable shit games and shovelware.
Job security is based how profitable your product is, so not a huge surprise. Its also not something people need to survive unlike food, water & shelter so its on the chopping block during hard economic times.
There's a game dev course load? Colleges are only about money now days, not educating people to think for themselves.
On top of this, no one is taking any risks anymore.
Companies: * Refuses to do anything smart due to "brand risk" *
Also Companies: "Selling a product that hasn't been made to a market that doesn't exist, there is surely no way this can go wrong!"
Remember when we C&C generals? a strategy base builder games criticizing war, the military industry, and let you played as terrorist that felt like they got a point? (if you ignore their methods), 2 years AFTER 9/11, WHILE Afghanistan war was ongoing, 1 MONTH BEFORE Irak war?
We can't get those kind of games now.
Give me a game about the ongoing conflicts, show me the position of each sides... is that too much to ask?
It has nothing to do with taking risks, they just think gatekeeping good ideas out will somehow make their bad ideas work. They are totally fine with taking risks, it's just that their goal isn't cooperation, but subjugation. Which is insane, because you can't make somebody buy something. But, these aren't intelligent or sane people...
Instead they are listening to woke clowns losing money lol
Not sure about "taking risks". New releases suck and they don't need to take risks to get good ideas into the release title, or fix bad ideas. Arrowhead Studios is taking a risk more with dumb nerfs that are pointless.
17:15 this isn't capitalism, it's corporatism. Communists and socialists have been trying to conflate the two for decades, but capitalism is not corporatism.
@@archibaldc.1833 👍👍👍
@@archibaldc.1833 when you have to make shit up to defend an archaic economic system. Classic conservative.
@@rotisseueryu That's the socialist playbook. Socialism only gets implimented based on lies. Socialim, communism, Marxism, all that junk has failed every time it was tried. Go on, lie about how "iT wAs NEveR TrIEd" before.
@@rotisseueryu Denying reality and pretending that histroy doesn't exist, and then trying to lump someone who's political center with the "boogey man conservatives" classic brainwashed political sheep.
i miss the 80s Good times.. Arcades & NO social media!
They even had mini-arcades in some of the movie theaters us dinosaurs used to go to
The 90's also
I wasted a decade of my life being “chewed up and spit out” by that poorly managed industry. It was an “eternal nightmare of crunches and layoffs.”
From 2004-2014, I was hired, worked like a dog with zero work/life balance, and laid off by 4 studios. All of the games I worked on were “Live Services” and no longer exist. This means I have NOTHING to show for those 10 good years of my 20s/30s and the amount of work I invested into those projects & studios.
If 10 years of dealing with the Mean Girls work environment wasn’t enough to convince me to leave that industry, the year of homelessness I endured after being laid off sure was.
I am incredibly grateful I was able to switch industries back in 2014. The industry wasn’t stable when I finally left 10 years ago. I can only imagine how awful it is now as I approach my 50s.
Entertainment industries are not viable for those seeking stability or any real means to survive for any extended period of time.
Considering the fact that old games are some of the best, you definitely got out at a good time.
I remember interviewing with Big Huge Games, Firaxis, and Zenimax back in 2008. You may have been one of the overworked, stressed out, and tired developers that spooked me from jumping on a games industry job. The allure of helping create a world, characters, and stories that are bigger than what you can achieve alone was very attractive.
But to be treated as disposable by an industry focused on its investors and executives at the expense of its creators was and continues to be depressing. Society needs to limit the role massive corporations play in shaping our world.
Remember when games used to have dreamy soundtracks like donkey kong that made you feel like you were loved and cared for like the zelda songs and super mario galaxy type music. Those songs are feelings converted into sound and you can feel the creators dream spill into your heart from their joy of putting true love in a digital world.
There's always old-school retro games to play.
Old school consoles like the Nintendo 64, PS1 and the Gamecube and may others are reliable, well put together little machines.
Their durability and longevity has made them age like fine wine. Modern Consoles like the PS5 and others have aged like fine milk. 🤢
The best part about retro? No DRM or mandatory online *needed* to play. Plus retro consoles are easy for small businesses to work with for sales and tech support.
If retro is on the rebound I'm really looking forward to another round of couch co-op. It's been too long. ☺
There's an official Sega Genesis emulator on Switch and Steam. Lot's of great games.
Re4 for the 15th time
Nintendo is still worth sticking around for their recent stuff as well. I do think pairing with new and old helps on their side.
This came from AAA companies allowing their bureaucracy to bloat, so they could handle the new DEI.
Bigger bureaucracy, means less money to quality. So, even if DEI did nothing, it would still break the company.
If a company is owned by several random sharehonders, that's not really a capitalist enterprise.
You go public, the games are no longer the product, the company is.
I mean, the crunching, the abuse, the last minute change, the predatory micro transactions and to all of that add the DEI checklist... No surprise the industry is a hellhole not worth the effort.
Specially when your bosses seem only interested in screwing you and the costumer. Their collapse was coming sooner or later, all because it's all lights and show, but no real essence of replayability, in modern gaming.
Triple AAA ....... Quality dropped, stories garbage, bugs and glitches are a feature... Hate on their customer because you are entitled to... oh no how could this be happening.
Gamers who are now in their 30-40’s remember how good games were once upon a time, its not skipped a generation by any means and they just want quality games to spend their hard earned money on and that’s been proven with the success of black myth wukong.
I keep forgetting that game is out. Have you played it? And 1-10 what would you give it have you had?
Im going to Google how much it's sold so far.
We need less corporate video games. We need to bring back indie passion projects. Whenever you hear corporate video game it’s a big company trying to invest a couple of million and fleece the unknowing masses of their money. Put in gambling mechanics, gotcha mechanics, hard selling, etc… all to trick their customers into paying more and more money. The initial purchase wasn’t enough, they need addicted hooked on their games. It’s disgusting.
Nah we should make executives play the single most corporate game literally every single move they do requires money we should make them play a witch’s brew of a mobile game and a extremely experimental indie game while getting eye screwed by ads everywhere and spending more money…and after a certain period they have to pay 90 dollars to renew their game owners license and have them play it on a console that works off a subscription model if you don’t pay it your console immediately shuts down and deletes all your games and save data forcing you to start again and again and again and again and sometimes it randomly plays ads before you can pay again and that ads had ads and that ad has ads
They don’t need millions to make a fun game not every game needs to be AAA why can’t big companies like EA just work on multiple smaller projects why not make a game that rivals Kenshi with a more experienced team Kenshi was made by a solo dev and it cost about $40,000 and it took 12 years sure it might be slightly more since it’s a bigger team but it certainly does not need 100 fkn million not everything needs mocap and hyper realism and fancy shadows or whatever to justify all that
Tell gamers you hate them and your product isn't made for them. Go out of Business. Wonder why anyone would want to work in the industry.
Hope they figure it out eventually.
lots of kids get fooled into going into game design and get degrees. they get hired and make less needed to survive on their own. my friend went to college in cali. got a degree. didnt get a good career.. became a beta tester for activision. his parents had to pay his bills for 2 years. then he gave up because he never got promoted to do anything.. now, im not saying he had talent, but it shouldnt require a degree to become a shitty beta tester. anyone in the world can beta test for a living. just the standard of pay is complete nonsense.
i know 2 kids who went to full sail.. expensive university.. both hired by blizzard. both quit within 6 months because they couldnt handle the pace of blizzard. they were overwhelmed. people think game design = easy.. when its an extremely harsh and brain draining type of career. most cant handle it. its something you have to learn on your own, built up resilence to over the course of a decade.. then get your degree, then your career. otherwise youre jumping into the deep end of a pool when you can barely tread water.
"His parents had to pay his bills for 2 years" lol why? He couldn't get another part time job? I guess he would be ded if his parents weren't around...
Gen Z is built weird.
I still playing my old games collection. The newer game that I had brought was Resident Evil: The Village that it was used for 14 bucks at a local video games shop
They ignored their core customer base, they ignored everyone's warning. They thought we would keep on buying anything and everything. The masses silently protested, and now they're going "Oh no, games aren't worth it anymore". Oh no, they are worth it. We still buy them, we still play them. We just don't give a damn about their slop.
"They thought we would keep on buying anything and everything."
Well we all kind of did, still do.
Japanese companies also ignored merit, and are now going bankrupt for supporting the bloat from the US.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 A lot of that is people who don't necessarily care about the politics behind the screen and they're just buying the latest and "greatest" because that's what's available. It's also streamers and rage players.
@@OutLanderUSN Or care for who they buy from.
Even if they clearly hate them they buy regardless.
Mindless consumers, whales,etc.
@@darkzeroprojects4245 Actually we kind of are not. So much so that the economy is starting to crack.
Japan's game industry is the opposite when it come to layoffs however this due the labor crisis the country is experiencing. Japanese game developers can't afford layoff anybody because very few young people are entering the Japan's labor market.
And for the record Japan's employment crisis isn't just affecting the games but whole industries.
That is very unfortunate and a shame. While most of the western suffering is self-inflicted by stupidity and other nonsense.
Japan's population is very old now. They need to send me over there to become a resident of the Waifus. It's time to repopulate that country like Genghis Khan.
The CERO are the biggest enemies because of the hypocritical female character designing rules.
Yeah, they have nowhere near enough young people to replace the sea of people who're ready to retire. China has the opposite issue but in a worse way. The young aren't into the hardcore work style, the nine-nine-six system, and China has a serious gender problem right now. Thanks to the one child rule they enforced for decades there's so few women compared to the masses of men. Everyone wanted a male heir. Can't say what happened to Japan. China was self inflicted but Japan seems to have just steered away from having kids for some reason.
@@fracturedraptor7846 I started following this woman on RUclips, "chinesewithlia" born in China that now lives in the US. She runs a Mandarin learning business. Tempted. She did a shorts video where she said she was born under the 1 Child Policy. Dad works. Mom worked, but had to get back into the work force. Grandma says "I'll take care of my grand daughter". OK. Mom comes over early to pick the child up one day. Summer. Probably over 100 F. Kid is dressed up like an Eskimo. Grandma says "Babies need to stay warm". This woman said, "Girls were not worth anything. Grandma wanted me gone, so my parents could try again and maybe get a boy". She said, she was never in contact with her grandmother ever again. Her parents cut grandma off. That was 20 something years ago. Lia needs to watch herself though. Went back to China to visit family in the last year and she's not afraid to point things out. She started the biz in China. The original web site ended in cn.
Japan, if you are to "Succeed", you need to move to the megalopolises. Where, because you have to, means living in a closet and running in place. Moving to a city of say a million people and it's rural around it means you are a failure. They don't want to have children in that environment. There's nothing decent job wise in the sticks.
They have a weird way of doing things when it comes to homes. Look up Akiya houses. There's 8 to 8.5 million abandoned homes in Japan. It's extremely hard to get one of those 8 million+ Akiya houses. You have to jump through incredible hoops. Those houses just sit there and deteriorate. I believe a house is grandfathered in with existing building codes as long as the owner owns it. If owner passes, family doesn't want to touch it. They are on the hook to bring it up to code. Not just the house, everything in it. Watched a guy from Australia that was half Malay that married a Japanese woman. They bought one. Farmer died. Everything but his body was in the house. Everything. Cars on the property. Photos, clothes, tools. Family wouldn't touch it. If they did, they owned it. The cars were old but runnable. The hassle to get them registered was too much. The guy had them taken out on a flat bed to a junk yard.
1:29 yeah you’re not wrong. Currently trying to get either an original Xbox or a PlayStation 2 so I can play some games from my childhood again. Solely because there’s not many new games that interest me all that much. And the ones that do/ did, I already finished multiple times
When I graduated highschool in 2014 I thought for sure I was gonna be a video game designer, I'm so glad I was wrong
i spent my entire life chasing the video game career.. 90 percent of my life. then things would pop up like Lucas Arts locking their employees inside the workplace for months, unable to see their families or to go anywhere because games needed to be finished.. before 2014.. game design careers were extremely harsh. after all i saw.. i was like phew. glad i never got into this type of career and used my artistic talents elsewhere.
Being a programmer is a lot of work with science and math and engineering too
I'm retired. My cousin is in his 70s. Commercial artist. First job was board games for Milton Bradley. That was the 1970s. He saw that as a dead end. Not because of PCs, but a very structured assembly line method to the "Art". He spent his whole career more or less doing Fortune 500 company annual report designs. Was a partner in a 3 man shop. Sold his stake and worked from home. Lives in a kit built log cabin. The last 20 years of his career was everything was photoshop. I asked him when was the last time he actually drew by hand or painted anything for money or personal fulfillment. His answer was "Heh......".
His daughter, my 2nd cousin, went to NYU and got a "Journalism" degree. First 2 jobs were a copy editors for 2 small time national magazines. Those are gone. I think one was owned by National Geographic and the other by Conde Nast. She then moved on writing ad copy for consumer products. Then went free lance. Africa, South America, India. Ended up in Switzerland. For 4-5 years wrote and produced videos for internal consumption for Airbus. Stuff like training videos. Married a MIT guy that worked for the WHO. He's Swedish. They now live about 20 miles north of Stockholm. The only "Journalism" she really did was when she freelanced. They have a kid now that is 3-4 years old. She teaches yoga now.
If you asked both did they ever conceive what they thought would be and what actually happened would have happened, they'd both say "Nope".
Well I wanted to be an Astronaut when I was young.
So how's the Space Station doing?
@@Marinealver i have a GED and have worked on video games. :)
I am 37. I already have more games, movies and other free time activities to last me till I am gone. And even with all AAA failing, there's a ton of indie's out there that occasionally publish bangers for under 20 bucks and void of MTX... There's absolutely no leverage for bad content. Or even average stuff for that matter.
The market is saturated but that just means you need to innovate, in game play mechanics and in themes and stories. The corporat hierarchy can't innovate. Could be risky, controversial, upset advertisers, upset regulators, upset Muslims, upset the CCP, upset Christians, etc. So you have to just churn out the same anodyne crap that says nothing relevant to anyone.
*shrug*
This will be my final year or so of gaming. I'm not buying any new games ever again. I bought in one last time and these new games are hollow.
I'm just playing indie games and old JRPGs.
Suikoden 1-2 remake comes out in March looking forward to that best JRPGs I've ever played. Games nowadays are woke and buggy AF.
I haven't bought a PS5 because all the "good" games seem the same. I thought about giving up on video games this morning. I realized, wow, most games have no replay value now. I'm hoping GTA 6 and the new Dragon Age coming in October regain my faith.
"Let the industry burn."
- Horus, probably
I barely play modern games, even since 2015 AAA games were a joke
Games in 2015 were awesome:
Witcher 3, Batman Arkham Knight (after the Bugfixes), Fallout 4, Pillars of Eternity, Ori and the Blind Forest, Soma, Rainbow Six Siege, Dying Light, Resident Evil Revelation 2, Bloodborne, Rocket League, Until Dawn, Warhammer End Times Vermintide 1, World of Warships, Prison Architect, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Cities Skyline, Lego Jurassic Park, Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain, Resident Evil HD Remake, Ashes of the Singularity, Satellite Reign, Evoland 2, Shadowrun: Hongkong, Victor Vran, ARK: Survival Evolved, GTA 5, Dark Souls 2 Scholar of the First Sin, Hotline Miami 2, Homeworld Remastered, The Book of Unwritten Tales 2, Total War: Attila, Hand of Fate, Apotheon, Darkest Dungeon, Life is strange EP1, Grim Fandango Remastered, Anno 2205, Dirt Rally, Project Cars, Journey, Untertale, Divinity Original Sin, Shovel Knight, Lego Dimensions, Mad Max, Yakuza Zero, Mortal Kombat X, Assassins Creed Syndicate, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, Wolfenstein Old Blood, Fran Bow, King's Quest, DmC: Devil May Cry - Definitive Edition, Sons of Anarchy: The Prospect, Episode 1, Broforce and many more.
Games in 2016 to 2018 were also good.
Since 2019/2020 gaming got really bad.
@@darientertainment2615 nope, he's got a point.
@@moisesezequielgutierrez
I have made a list with really good games from 2015. How can you say gaming in 2015 was trash.
@@darientertainment2615 I just thought this was a list taken from Wikipedia of games released in 2015, considering the... 'varying' quality levels.
@@Coconut-219
No I search for nearly a hour on many sides for all this titles. I only pick the best from 2015 and was a lot.
If you stop and look for a moment, every facet of our lives is becoming very unsustainable and falling apart due to insane amounts of greed. Everything we in know and love is falling apart because the top 5% can't deal with a 5% pay cut out of their billions.
it all started with mmorpgs, we found out players will pay for 2x EXP, 2x drop rates and "Sealing Equipment" to trade with fellow players.
it's weird how far these greedy practices evolved to reach not only single player games but the companies can't be arsed to make a product that doesn't use a skill tree, crafting and checkpoint towers.
I still remember having games come out no bugs no updates NES to PS2 after that nothing but buggy games.
Yeah the fact that you can patch games after they’re released means you don’t have any more permanently broken games, but it also means game developers got lazy with product testing because they knew they could fix anything that the players found.
The "era of games that weren't buggy" is a myth. The games back then weren't as polished as we'd reasonably like either.
@@mobiusraptor7 Which is why games like OOT had several bugfix revisions made before it even launched, several games were drastically improved in localization and Mario and Luigi: BiS has a severe graphics corruption bug on the secret boss in the EU version.
I never said that current games are not completely in the toilet, I only said that the whole talk about "releases without bugs" and "this was always super polished before patches" is cap. There were many releases with impactful bugs and oversights back then too.
If you want to know what kind of company Bioware is now, they laid off their whole character team thinking they were done the game. Then my husband applied after he was laid off in January. They wanted him to work for nothing on contract and kept changing the dates to just THREE months of work and then got angry when he found out about the layoffs didn't want the job. He's trying to get out of the industry ASAP.
Video Games are worth it... just not when they are made by AAA studios.
Indie Games shall pave the way to the future as the old guard dies off.
Actually Indie won't be spared.
Hobby games as in those that don't make money.
Conscript let me down.....fun after the game is beaten with extra weapons, but the levels are so dull and boring. No guide to help either.
I came to this conclusion back in 2010 after I saw what happened to the heads of Infinity Ward.
Uncharted 4 was the red flag for me of the fallout of a great industry that I love being taken over along with other industries by multicolored activist tourists and corporations.
BFV was the one for me. RDR2 and MK11 were the last games I bought iirc.
My ps4 blew up. Got a ps5 for christmas. Haven't played a ps5 game on it yet. Haven't plugged in the ps5 controller other than to set the thing up. I use the ps4 controller to play ps4 games on it. I think something is very wrong with the gaming industry and i know what it is. We feel like we're being scammed for maximum profits and we are. The broken buggy game is bait to lure you into their DLC plans.
$70 is way too much for a game. I usually hesitate if they’re even $60.
I’m old enough to remember when they were $50 in the early to mid 2000s
I'm old enough to remember on the 90s a N64 game brand new was close to 80 dollars.
@@Omer_Sastim_is_turtle_bot N64 games were the most expensive in comparison to all the other consoles (PlayStation, Sega Saturn, N64) and PC during the 90s.
i stopped purchasing games at launch when ACU dropped and was broken to all hell, it was at that moment when i knew it was never worth preordering any game and not purchasing any game at launch, and i was right because it seemed every year more and more games were released buggy or broken at launch and they were still expecting the customer to pay full price for this shit.
i have learned to wait a few years after the game has been launched, because by then the game is finally ready, where they fixed all the bugs if not the majority of them and dropped all the DLC and as a bonus i get the game in full for a far cheaper deal, so my expectations are never disappointing when i start to play said game.
all the people who purchase games at launch are the beta testers who pay to be the beta testers, in which they should be paying you, but these guys are usually idiots and they are willing to pay to be the beta testers for these companies.
@@richardjohnson7656
i'm thinking some of these dudes aren't either telling the truth or they were in Canada which makes sense in why the higher prices, but you and i remember the price was $50 bucks in America.
What did they expect when they said that "Gamers are [deleted]", that "Gamers are [istaphobes]" and when every time these wierdos say anything its followed up with violent rhetoric against THE CUSTOMER?!
Why...OH WHY...would gamers or anyone else want to invest thier (very limited now) money on companies and products that do not serve them?
Its such a mystery...i doubt we'll ever figure out how this happened. If only there was something that made it so obvious...some sort of chain of events over a period of time to correlate cause and effect.
Oh well....good riddance to this trash industry. I revel in it's hubric collapse.
0:53: Regarding journalism I don't think it's any of those that are to blame; social media just makes professional game reviewing obsolete as a profession.
Two big reasons i think... 1. they don't make games for gamers anymore, they make them for propaganda
2. they don't sell games anymore, they rent them to you, and they can change/censor them on you at any time, and take the game away from you for any reason, so they're not worth paying 60$ or more, because unlike a NES or Playstation 2 game, it will be unplayable when the server gets shut down or some copyright thing happens.
Like just look at grand theft auto 4, if you want to ligit play it, as it was meant, you need to get a disk version now.
The best game is playing them at their own game.
The first one
@@BigDaddy-pe5xi do you ever wonder what would happen if steam for some reason started banning peoples accounts for any reason at all? there is no reason they can't.
I have 300+ games i've collected over the past 20 years, poof! all gone.
the 9th gen of gaming, aka the “Who cares” era
Pretty much any game from before 2009 (with exceptions) is on the table with zero judgement? Even the oldest ones out there?
Count me in! 😁
@@Gamerguy826It never did get better than everquest
Myself playing a F2P mmo for over 2 year and really enjoing it , why should i spend almost 100$ for mostly unfinished and problematic games for at best 50-100h play time ?!
The second video game crash is here and it was longtime coming. AAA game companies like EA and Activision has become so big and bloated that there is a lack of competition. Digital games is a bane for the customers cause publishers now release uncompleted games and feed DLC for their own greed.
I refuse to buy anything that requires an active internet connection, regular internet access, multiplayer with single player as an afterthought, micropayments or pay to win. The products I do want the studio has no interest in making and new games are just not that well thought out. The last new game I bought was BG3 but gave up on it because there wasn't enough ability to adjust difficulty.
I was excited about that game called where winds meet then I saw that it required an internet connection. Noped out of that the second I saw that
At first I thought BG3 was going to be fine, but obviously overhyped by the industry at the time. and then when the game came out we found out that the devs were quite a fruit basket.
Investors are killing the industry, I don't think we are far from another video game crash.
Which I can't wait for!
We'll see a refresh which is sorely needed
Nintendo single- handedly revived the home console video game market in 1985. Four decades later, they might have to do it again.
the industry went woke . you make games no one wants to play you make zero money.
Woke not woke who cares if they just garbage
Remember when gamers made games? When artists designed them with a singular artistic vision? When a lack of resources spurred innovation? When creative control was something you didnt have to fight for because the creator just wanted to make a good game, with everyone behind them?
Now? Corporate box checking. Hundreds of millions with crappy products as a result. Politically correct nonsense deciding how attractive or unattractive the characters are allowed to be. More and more and more the industry is removed from those who just wanna play good games. You've got developers insulting players who don't wanna play PC crap or blaming fans for other failures.
No wonder it's all falling apart.
The only games worth it right now are old school games. Grab an emulator if you don't have an old, working console and you'll have a blast! Plus, characters look great even if the graphics aren't up to par.
Some indies are good but you need to be careful what you buy.
Nintendo still got it with their recent releases. They are the ones to root for.
I don't play Videogames for graphics anyways.
@@markcarpenter6020Palworld is an indie game, and replacing male/female with "type 1/2" is enough to show that the game sucks that it crashed the game.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 I think the bigger problem with pal world was lack of content. Though I think they have released a bunch of stuff since I played it. I can live with body types. It's when games put in pronouns (like tiny Tina's wonderlands) that I wanna break things.,.
I keep replaying Red Dead Redemption 2 and MGS5.
People were parroting the same BS when those games were coming out too
I'm about to start the MGS franchise from no.1 - never played any and reckon it'll be hundreds of hours of gameplay for like $100 for all the gamea.
Talking about lean production. Me and four other solo devs are all helping each other with our games. Feels like a bandit camp, or a weird commune. We're all making great progress by doing so, and it really shows in the quality of the products when we all have mutual access to specialists. I can keep this up with no income for maybe 3 years, and I probably have a year left of development. Not sure about the others. We all have work to do, so we don't interfere. Answer the question, produce the code or art, and go back to your own work. It's awesome.
There was no video game crash in Europe - specifically the UK - in the 80s. I know what happened in the USA but over in the UK we had a personal computer boom. The ZX Spectrum, the C64 and the Amstrad CPC all sold millions of units. Rare got their start on the old 8-bit computers as did many other game devs due to the sheer accessibility of the machines. This was before either Sega or Nintendo started to make inroads into the market. So, yeah, the video game crash was more localised to the US market in the 80s.
Don't forget the Amiga that sold massive in the UK, Scandinavia and Germany.
I'm 27. One of the first games i played was Rollercoaster Tycoon. A game made by a single dev. 2 years ago i got a new gaming PC. The first game i installed? RCT 1&2. Old games were fun. They were made to be fun. New games are made for the "wider audience ". They're not made to be fun.
"for the wider audience " -> "to extract as much money as possible from the consumer". Fixed that for you.
I played roller coaster tycoon as well! I also like myst and riven.
I saw an ad for the Star wars game outside my local toy store and I did a double take. Over £100 for a game with digital extras. What a load of shit. I remember games would come with printed manuals, maps, posters.
The thing is, they want growth and profit all the time which is just unsustainable. The market is already flooded when plenty of people only play 1 game like the latest COD or Fortnite.
Snagged an emulator and started playing Final Fantasy Tactics again. Forgot that even though Ramza looks like a baby boy he's fuckin' fierce as hell. "Lay down your swords or die holding them!"
One of my favorite games. I always come back to it. The android version is pretty playable and quite good.
@@AnthonyJClink I play it all the time, the only phone app I can't live without. :)
Man I dumped ALL my console games with a cart dumper recently and threw practically every emulator under the sun on my phone, all 3 tactics games went straight on even though I have war of the lions on Android already. Advance for gba, War of the lions for PSP, a2 for ds. I love them so much. No need for OG PS1 tactics IMO but still :P different experience, I may do that too eventually.
But in the interest of playing my old glorious library, I practically have it all on my phone now. To top that off I got a hold of Yuzu before they shat the bed and put on final fantasy X/X-2 hd remakes plus XII hd remake too. So good compared to current(/mobile) game slop.